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Reducing Leaking Electricity to a TrickleIt isn't often that I have an opportunity to editorialize on my own research activities, but leaking electricity gives me an opening.
I have been investigating standby power losses for several years. Two colleagues--Steve Greenberg (also Home Energy's technical editor) and Leo Rainer--and I wrote our first paper on the subject in 1992. At about the same time, a Swedish researcher, Eje Sandberg, was measuring standby losses of televisions and published a paper in which he introduced the term leaking electricity--the literal translation of the Swedish word for standby losses--which I think is an apt term to use when referring to the general topic.
The measurements we did--plus those taken by others, such as Danny Parker at the Florida Solar Energy Center--led to the realization that leaking electricity was not a minor energy use. Indeed, leaking electricity appears to represent up to 5% of a typical U.S. home's total electricity use. (See Video Networks--A Surprising Energy Drain, p. 12) Measurements taken in Japan by Hidetoshi Nakagami and Chiharu Murakoshi revealed that leaking electricity comprises a shocking 10%15% of the electricity use in Japanese homes.
Shortly after that, I began to examine ways to reduce standby losses. On August 20, 1997, I was in a meeting with Balu Balakrishnan, vice president of technology at Power Integrations (PI); Dan Werthimer, an astronomer; and Wolfgang Huber, an engineering student from Munich. Balu showed us PI's new power supply and described the next generation, which would be even more efficient. As we talked, we began to appreciate the huge savings that would result as new power supplies replaced existing, inefficient ones. Somewhere in the middle of this meeting, I had two insights. First, I realized that, with more efficient power supplies, huge reductions in standby losses were possible. Second, since the electronic circuitry for most appliances typically consumes only milliwatts, the standby load for virtually all electronics could be cut to the same maximum level: I chose 1 watt. Out of that realization emerged my idea for the 1-Watt Plan.
The 1-Watt Plan had the added virtue of being an efficient solution to a problem I had just been wrestling with for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (see Audio/Visual Goes 1-Watt, HE Nov/Dec '98, p. 7). The EPA had asked us to advise them on what were the technically feasible levels of standby losses for their Energy Star TV/VCR program. One of the sticking points was whether TVs and VCRs with such new features as electronic programming guides should be allowed special, higher standby power levels. The answer was simple: With improved power supplies, all TVs and VCRs could attain the same standby level, and that level should be 1 watt. This proposal shortly evolved into a 1-watt target for all appliances. A few weeks later, I immodestly extended it to the whole world by calling it a Global 1-Watt Plan.
This plan has had some failures and some successes. I couldn't persuade Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to restrict the words off and power to switches that cut standby losses to below 1 watt. I wasn't able to convince the Japanese to introduce a proposal at the Kyoto Climate Change conference to support my Global 1-Watt Plan. However, the EPA negotiated an excellent agreement with TV/VCR manufacturers. True, it wasn't 1 watt, but the potential was there. For the next group of consumer electronics, the EPA cut a Solomon-like deal, letting manufacturers begin with a higher level and then ratchet down to 1 watt in 2002. And across the Capitol mall, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) began the laborious process of changing test procedures to capture standby losses.
Across the Atlantic, the Swiss and the Dutch were particularly active in developing programs similar in approach to Energy Star that would combat the leaking electricity problem. I introduced the 1-Watt Plan to Europe at a conference in Florence, Italy, in November 1997. It was well received, and the idea quickly spread beyond that forum. By early 1999, the German, Danish, Swiss, and Dutch governments informally endorsed the 1-watt target.
Across the Pacific, Hidetoshi Nakagami began exerting a strong influence on Japanese appliance manufacturers to strive toward the 1-watt target. His efforts began bearing fruit in 1998, when the first wave of low-standby TVs appeared. There is informal agreement in Japan that many other appliances will be redesigned to comply with a 1-watt level.
This progress is truly remarkable, because there are no government regulations affecting standby losses. There are also no commonly accepted definitions of standby losses, and no agreement as to what 1 watt of standby power consumption actually means (see Leaking Electricity Overseas, p. 7). But I don't see the lack of hard definitions as a major stumbling block. Instead, I foresee the 1-watt target gradually evolving to represent a general goal of major reductions in standby losses rather than being a hard target that every appliance must meet.
The overwhelming majority of appliances can achieve 1 watt with only modest modifications. But there is an important group of devices--most of them in the information technologies sector--that have complex operations. In those appliances, the definition of standby is often murky, and their standby levels will probably need to be addressed on a case-by-case basis. I personally hope that the general movement toward reducing leaking electricity won't be paralyzed by the need to hammer out agreements on a small percentage of appliances.
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Litany of secrets after papal retirement bombshell
VATICAN CITY (AP) — For an institution devoted to eternal light, the Vatican has shown itself to be a master of smokescreens since Pope Benedict XVI's shock resignation announcement.
On Thursday, the Vatican spokesman acknowledged that Benedict hit his head and bled profusely while visiting Mexico in July. Two days earlier the same man acknowledged that Benedict has had a pacemaker for years, and underwent a secret operation to replace its battery three months ago.
And as the Catholic world reeled from shock over the abdication, it soon became clear that Benedict's post-papacy lodgings have been under construction since at least the fall. That in turn put holes in the Holy See's early claims that Benedict kept his decision to himself until he revealed it.
Vatican secrecy is legendary and can have tragic consequences — as the world learned through the church sex abuse scandal in which bishops quietly moved abusive priests without reporting their crimes.
And the secrecy is institutionalized from such weighty matters to the most trivial aspects of Vatican life.
"You have to understand that actually every Vatican employee and official takes an oath of secrecy when they assume their job," said John Thavis, author of the Vatican Diaries, an investigation into the workings of the Holy See. "And this isn't something that is taken lightly. They swear to keep secret any office matters and anything pertaining to the pope."
One of the most famous cases of Vatican secrecy was the Holy See's efforts to cover up the fact that Pope John Paul I's dead body was discovered by a nun. The eventual revelation helped fuel conspiracy theories over the death of the pope who ruled for only 33 days in 1978.
The Vatican is so obsessed with secrecy that the first and only official confirmation that John Paul II had Parkinson's disease was in his death certificate.
The Vatican justifies itself by arguing that its officials are holders of the divine truth, unaccountable to worldly laws. In particular, the pope's word is the final say on any issue — infallible on some doctrinal matters. But groups representing sex abuse victims, and other Catholics angered by the scandal, have been demanding modern standards of accountability and calling for reforms.
The Vatican brushed aside criticism for keeping quiet about the pope's December pacemaker procedure, on grounds it was "routine." One Vatican official said making the operation public would simply have led to a big and unnecessary commotion about the pope's health. "You can imagine the satellite dishes in St. Peter's square," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The front-man for the church's dance of concealment and disclosure: Vatican spokesman The Rev. Federico Lombardi. In his briefings, Lombardi has been forced into the uncomfortable situation of keeping silent on aspects of the pope's health and future, only to backpedal when confronted with reports in Italian newspapers.
In the latest disclosure, Turin's La Stampa newspaper reported Thursday that Benedict hit his head on a sink and bled profusely when he got up in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar bedroom in Leon, Mexico. The report said papal blood stained Benedict's hair, his pillow and the floor.
Lombardi confirmed the incident but denied it played any role in the pope's resignation. Still, suspicions are bound to be whetted, since the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano reported this week that Benedict had taken the decision to resign after the Mexico-Cuba trip, which was physically exhausting for the 85-year-old pope.
Then there's the question of how many people knew of Benedict's decision to retire.
On the day of the announcement the Vatican cast it as a bolt from the blue, saying almost nobody knew but Benedict himself. Soon, however, prominent clergymen — one not even Catholic — began changing the tone and saying they were not surprised.
"Knowing the pope well, there was something in the air that this decision of the pope was possible," said Archbishop Piero Marini, master of papal ceremonies under Pope John Paul II. "So it was not a shock."
Even the retired Arcbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Rowan Williams, says that based on his last meeting with Benedict a year ago he was not surprise at the decision to step down.
"Because of our last conversation I was very conscious that he was recognizing his own frailty and it did cross my mind to wonder whether this was a step he might think about," Williams told Vatican Radio.
Renovation work on a convent previously occupied by cloistered nuns has been going on in secret since at least last fall, an issue apparently causing grumbling among cardinals about the choice of arrangements and whether Benedict's presence on Vatican grounds will allow the retired pope to wield too much influence on his successor.
"I don't think there was a consultation of the College of the Cardinals about this," Lombardi said Wednesday, deflecting questions about Benedict's living arrangements. "The decision and the process of the decision was very limited in the number of persons involved."
That points to another aspect of Vatican secrecy: The habit of different wings of the Holy See jealously concealing information from one another.
"There is very little cross communication within Vatican departments," Thavis said, "so one department may know something but that does not mean that the Curia office down the hall knows about it as well."
AP writer Daniela Petroff and AP Video Producer Tricia Thomas contributed.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...My fondness for watermelon jelly beans will be my downfall. I love their flavor and came to the conclusion that a watermelon-flavored jelly would also be delicious and make a fantastic toast topper. The only problem with that conclusion was the jelly is not available locally, and if I wanted a jar of it, I would have to make it myself. I've resisted doing that because this is a tricky jelly to get right, and making it is far more involved than putting-by the freezer jams I love so much. Here the ingredients must be mixed and boiled and then processed in jars that are submerged in a boiling water bath. That means special canning equipment is necessary and that jars and lids must be sterilized before the jelly can be processed. Simply stated it is a bother to make. I also hesitated because this jelly has a fairly high failure rate and can be hard to set or gel. The amount of water in a melon is variable and sometimes the initial addition of pectin is not sufficient to set the jelly. The other problem with this particular jelly is the smell watermelon makes when it is heated. It stinks. Fortunately, the odor does not affect the finished product. The jelly retains a watermelon flavor, and, while it is very sweet, it really does make a lovely toast topper. I doubt this will become a regular entry in your summer canning schedule, but you might want to try it for its novelty. Here's a small batch recipe.
Watermelon Jelly...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Bert's Cannery
2 cups seeded, diced watermelon
3-1/2 cups sugar
3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 package powdered fruit pectin
1) Place diced watermelon in jar of an electric blender and puree until completely smooth. You should have 2 cups of puree. If you wish a clearer jelly, strain through a fine mesh strainer lined with cheese cloth or use a jelly bag.
2) Combine watermelon puree, sugar and lemon juice in a 6 to 8-quart heavy bottomed pan. Over high heat, bring mixture to a rolling boil (a boil that cannot be stirred down), stirring constantly. Stir in pectin all at once and return to a rolling boil. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove pan from heat. Skim foam from surface of jelly.
3) Ladle jelly into clean hot half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-inch head space. Process in a boiling water bath canner for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely away from drafts, then store in cool, dark place. Makes 4 half-pints.
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Today's News: Our Take - Will Smith on Why He Turned Down Django Unchained: "I Need to Be the Lead"
Will Smith was originally offered the lead in Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film Django Unchained and turned it down - not because of a scheduling conflict like he initially claimed, but because it wasn't all about him.
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"Django wasn't the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead. The other character was the lead!" Smith told Entertainment Weekly, referring to Christoph Waltz's bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz, for which he ironically won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. (Waltz was initially campaigned in lead along with Jamie Foxx, who played Django.)
Smith said he even begged Tarantino to make Django more central to the film before eventually parting ways with the project. "I was like, 'No, Quentin, please, I need to kill the bad guy!"
Still, Smith is a huge fan of the film, which also won Tarantino the Best Original Screenplay Oscar. "I thought it was brilliant," he said. "Just not for me."
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The top official of the Kansas Turnpike Authority is preparing to testify about Gov. Sam Brownback's proposal to merge the agency with the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Turnpike Authority president and CEO Michael Johnston was scheduled to appear Thursday at a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee.
The authority is responsible for operating and maintaining the 236-mile toll road that stretches from Kansas City, Kan., to the Oklahoma border south of Wichita.
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5 US troops killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five American troops with a special operations unit were killed by a U.S. airstrike called in to help them after they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in nearly 14 years of war, officials said Tuesday.
The deaths were a fresh reminder that the conflict is nowhere near over for some U.S. troops, who will keep fighting for at least two more years.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said the five American troops were killed Monday "during a security operation in southern Afghanistan."
"Investigators are looking into the likelihood that friendly fire was the cause. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of these fallen," Kirby said in a statement.
In Washington, U.S. defense officials said the five Americans were with a special operations unit that they did not identify. Earlier, officials had said all five were special operations-qualified troops, but later an official said their exact affiliation was unclear and one or more may have been a conventional soldier working with the special operations unit.
The deaths occurred during a joint operation of Afghan and NATO forces in the Arghandab district of southern Zabul province ahead of Saturday's presidential runoff election, said provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Rooghlawanay. After the operation was over, the troops came under attack from the Taliban and called in air support, he said.
"Unfortunately five NATO soldiers and one Afghan army officer were killed mistakenly by NATO airstrike," Rooghlawanay said.
There was no way to independently confirm Rooghlawanay's comments. The coalition would not comment and NATO headquarters in Brussels also declined to comment.
However, special operations forces often come under fire on joint operations and are responsible for calling in air support when needed. Because of constraints placed by President Hamid Karzai, such airstrikes are usually called "in extremis," when troops fear they are about to be killed.
Airstrikes have long caused tensions between the Afghan government and coalition forces, especially when they cause civilian casualties.
Airstrikes that kill coalition soldiers are far less common. One of the worst such incidents came in April 2002, when four Canadian soldiers were killed by an American F-16 jet fighter that dropped a bomb on a group of troops during a night firing exercise in southern Kandahar. In April 2004, former National Football League player Pat Tillman was killed by coalition fire while serving in an Army Ranger unit in one of the most highly publicized cases.
Relatives identified two of the five American troops killed Monday.
One of those killed was 19-year-old Aaron Toppen of Mokena, Illinois, who had deployed to Afghanistan in March, a month after his father died, according to a family spokeswoman, Jennie Swartz. His family was suffering a "double hit" of grief, Toppen's sister, Amanda Gralewski, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
A cousin said military representatives went to the home of Justin Helton's parents in Beaver, Ohio, early Tuesday to inform them of their son's death. Mindy Helton said her cousin specialized in dealing with explosives and was based out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She said the 25-year-old Helton had been in Afghanistan for about two months and was engaged to be married.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for Monday's ambush in Zabul.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said a battle took place between foreign troops and Taliban fighters in the Arghandab district, and a "huge number" of NATO soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting. The Taliban often exaggerate their claims.
The insurgents have intensified attacks on Afghan and foreign forces ahead of Saturday's presidential runoff, and officials are concerned there could be more violence around the time of the vote, although the first round in April passed relatively peacefully.
Of the 30,000 or so U.S. troops left in Afghanistan, special operations forces are among the only ones that are active on the battlefield, mentoring and advising Afghan commandos during raids.
An even smaller group that operates independently of the NATO coalition mandate, which expires at the end of the year, goes after high-value targets including the remnants of al-Qaida. Many of those special forces are likely to remain after the end of 2014, when foreign combat troops leave the country.
Although the U.S. has pledged 9,800 troops will remain until the end of 2016, a bilateral security agreement allowing them to do so has yet to be signed. The two candidates vying to succeed Karzai have said they will sign the deal.
Most of those troops will be training and advising the Afghan army and police, but a small counterterrorism force will still go after high value Jihadists still in the country.
The main opposition candidate, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, has little love for the Taliban and is unlikely to stand in the way of such operations. The other contender, former finance minister and Karzai adviser Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, may be more reticent.
Separately, a NATO statement said a service member died Monday as a result of a non-battle injury in eastern Afghanistan.
The deaths bring to 36 the number of NATO soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, with eight service members killed in June.
Casualties have been falling in the U.S.-led military coalition as its forces pull back to allow the Afghan army and police to fight the Taliban insurgency. All combat troops are scheduled to be withdrawn from the country by the end of this year.
Violence against Afghans, however, has continued unabated.
Insurgents attacked two vehicles carrying civilian de-miners in eastern Logar province, killing eight and wounding three, said provincial spokesman Din Mohammad Darwesh.
In eastern Ghazni province, insurgents kidnapped 33 university instructors who were travelling to Kabul for a seminar. Kandahar provincial spokesman Dawa Khan Menapal said the 33 were taken by a large group of insurgents and there was no word on their fate. He said all were from the southern province.


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[Like CS I also like to experiment with more than just traditional East European fare. As the mother of a son who occasionally likes exotic flavors, I scoured through my cookbooks to find an interesting, easy to make recipe and this is what I found. It brings back some memories of the past, memories of another life:
Getting on and off the plane in Korea for buying and chatchka jewelry/accessory design trips in the 80's, I mostly remember the smell of kimchi – the traditional national cabbage dish of Korea – I'm not sure if it was the long flights or the 5:00 am arrival and crazy non-stop foreign vendor work load, but the smell always made me nauseous. I never developed a yen for the Korean versions of the leafy green, and happily ate my tuna a la suitcase, though I understand kimchi has now become quite the rave here in the U.S. Go figure!
However, with the secular New Year approaching and new resolutions abounding, we thought we would offer up a relatively healthy Korean grilled dish called Kalbi or Galbi (means rib in Korean) or in a Japanese bastardization of the Korean namewhich can be substituted with chicken, BTW, for the truly resolute. The beef or ribs are marinated in a Korean style savory sauce comprised of soy sauce, garlic sesame oil, and honey or sugar. This dish is traditionally made with rice wine although any red wine will do; a hot pepper paste can be added to the marinade for those who want the extra kick to their dish. Enjoy served with your favorite rice recipe. SYR]
From Japanese Kosher Cooking by Kinue Weinstein (page 116)
Korean Barbecue (Karubi)
You'll need a portable grill placed in the center of the dinner table
Serves 4
- 2 pounds beef steak (rib eye is the best)
- 1 green pepper
- 1 round onion
- 1 leek
- 1 Italian eggplant (4 ounces
- 1 carrot
- 1 portobello mushroom
- 1 teaspoon white or sherry
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds, toasted and crushed
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- black pepper
Dipping Sauce:
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons red wine
- 6 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon sugar 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 1/2 lemon, squeezed
- Slice the beef thinly 2-3 inch pieces.
- Combine all the ingredients for the marinade, and marinade for about 20 minutes.
- Combine all the ingredients for the dipping sauce, and divide into 4 individual dishes.
- Cut the green pepper into 8 sections.Slice the onion in rings. Cut the leek into mpieces 1 1/2 inches long, and slice the eggplant, carrot and mushrooms thinly.
- Place the meat and vegetables on platters.
- Each diner will grill meat and vegetables on the tabletop grill and eat with dripping sauce when it is finished.
- Serve with favorite rice.
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Elbow: Stress Fracture
I use a campus board for a quick pump when time is limited. I also campus easier problems for some added strength. However, lately, after five minutes or so of training, I get this aching along the ulnar side of my forearm.
I use a campus board for a quick pump when time is limited. I also campus easier problems for some added strength. However, lately, after five minutes or so of training, I get this aching along the ulnar side of my forearm. It feels like my bone is aching. The pain is about halfway between wrist and elbow. It hurts mostly when I am pulling hard, not so much when dead-hanging on jugs. It isn't too bad at night unless I had an evening session. The pain is there when I am on the problem but it's when I release the holds that I feel the ache. I had the same pain when I used to do bicep curls at the gym.
Stress fractures are the injuries of cool people, that special breed able to tap dark wells of moonshine mojo to the point that their bones yield under the cumulative and crushing force of full-throttle commitment. Stress fractures are more recalcitrant than politicians from Texas, equally painful, and even less likely to respond in a reasonable manner when under duress.
Time-poor training translates to injury-rich training. You can't just rock up to the gym for a quick tango with that bush-pig the campus board; it will eat you and not bother to floss. You need to take your time — pick your nose, stare at the new breed of hot chicks that have way more technique than you, comb your eyebrows.
Rather than campus easier problems, use your feet on a more difficult one! Foot free is for those with no left brain. If you don't have time to train properly, go home and have a beer — it will be better for you.
For the most part, ulna stress fractures occur in the avid weight lifter, so it's no surprise that you initially felt this at the gym. Exercises such as biceps curls generate enormous stress on the forearm bones, especially the ulna.
As you have noted, pain arises in the mid-ulna shaft, temporarily worsens with exercise, and is often very painful if you suddenly release your grip. Stress fractures in general are acutely sensitive to vibration.
Scans would be great, but there seems little doubt that you are on the wrong end of the bone-stress spectrum. If you are the persnickety type, x-rays may be helpful, but an MRI (among other scans) will be defining.
Absolute rest for a few weeks is paramount, and then adjust your training to minimize stress. Light climbing is fine, but no weights that involve gripping. If you can't apply a gentle hand brake or the training is still aggravating, then take 10 weeks of absolute rest and start back slowly.
Comfrey cream has been shown to be fairly helpful in fracture healing. And it's cheap with no adverse side effects.
Most GPs and even physical therapists are unlikely to have heard of an ulna stress fracture, but are certainly capable of recognizing the condition if they follow through with appropriate scans. A sports physician (a specialist in sports medicine) would be preferable.
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The Collector: Toy tank gets high 'Marx'
Dear Collector: The enclosed photo is of a key-wound tank complete with rat-a-tat machine gun and gunner. The only clue to its manufacture is a "Pat's Pend'g, Mar Toys" of the hatch.
My research proves your litho-tin toy dates from around 1942. Made by Marx and offered in early '40s Montgomery Ward catalogs, this plaything was larger and better decorated than the more common "Turnover Tank" and employed the same basic mechanics as the "Planet Patrol Space Tank," also from Marx. Current fair-market value, in perfect working and cosmetic condition, is $125-$175.
Dear Collector: Would you please tell me the value of this "Owens Utopian" vase?
Owens, an Ohio pottery established in 1885, produced artware similar to its nearest competitor, Roseville (both were located in the same town). Your early 20th-century piece could be worth several hundred dollars, especially if you can identify the decorator from their initials which were often placed next to the maker's mark.
Dear Collector: I have this Jim Beam fox decanter on a display shelf for years. What is it worth?
Issued in 1965 and again in '67, this figural is called "The Green Fox" after the color of his riding jacket. Value rarely exceeds $30.
Dear Collector: What is the story in back of my "Hubie Baby" button?
Promoting the 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey, this pinback is worth all of $5.
Dear Collector: What is the purpose of the device shown in the enclosed photos? There are no markings on it that I can see.
Your whatchamacallit is a pencil pointer, an early type of pencil sharpener. Probably dating from the last quarter of the 19th century, its value is about $40.
Dear Collector: Would you assist us in identifying the age and value of this double teapot set? We recently got them at a local jumble sale at our church.
Your Twin-Tee miniature set consisting of a teapot, hot water pot and tray, dating sometime after 1930, came from the East Liverpool, Ohio, factory of Hall China Company. Value could be as much as $150.
Dear Collector: I have come across a 50 cent piece with an 1818 date and have been unable to find anything about it, including its value.
Slightly less than 2 million 90 percent silver half-dollars were minted for 1818. Low value on one listed in circulated (good) condition is about $50.
Dear Collector: Enclosed are pictures of a wash basin set we purchased for $125 at an auction in the 1980s. All four pieces are marked "Royal Patent Ironstone, Burgess & Goddard." Can you advise us as to age and value?
Importing wares from Staffordshire, B&G operated between 1850 and 1890. Your basin, jug, shaving mug and toothbrush holder date from the 1880s. Current market value is approximately what you paid.
Dear Collector: Should I put this painting in storage for my children?
Your watercolor by Miss Wilson (born in 1877), who worked in her namesake state and California until her death in 1961, may not command high prices at today's auctions, but as with most artwork, there's always hope for the future.
"Recommended reading: "Hislop's Official International Price Guide to Fine Art" (House of Collectibles, 2007, $24.95). "20th Century Plastic Jewelry," Roseann Ettinger (Schiffer, 2007, $29.95). "Star Wars Super Collector's Wish Book," Geoffrey T. Carlton (Collector Books, 2007, $29.95).
Prices quoted reflect retail values, and as with many antiques and collectibles these values vary. Readers are encouraged to submit questions with photos to The Collector, P.O. Box 229, West Boxford, MA 01885-0229, or ask online at www.askthecollector.com. Please don't ask help in buying or selling your items. Sorry, photos cannot be returned and will become the property of The Collector. For a personal reply, send $25 per item check or money order to The Collector at the address above.


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Mark Kelly talks about pushing for changes to gun laws related to background checks, mental health issues and access to assault weapons. He and his wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, started the organization Americans for Responsible Solutions to promote ideas that they believe will make America safer.
Kelly also tells Anderson Cooper about visiting Newtown with Giffords to lend their support as a family who was impacted by a deadly mass shooting.
Support for the NRA's proposal to put several armed guards in every school would solve, not only the school safety problem, but our unemployment problem. How to pay the hefty cost of all this new government employment? Impose a heft tax on each and every gun. Over time, this would also greatly decrease gun ownership. Viola, many problems solved.
People talk about wanting to "do something" wanting "change" and dealing with the violence problem in America but really...you don't want change you want what's easy. It is easy to blame "assault weapons" and put in place a law that just candy coats our delusion pill so that we can feel good about saying we made a "change" and can now get back to our favorite actors in our movies running around with guns. Meanwhile another criminal in the future will skirt the law, acquire a weapon and reek havoc on a sleeping society. If we really want change why not put TRAINED people in place, in our schools, who can react at a moments notice to one of these criminals? Will they be risking their lives along with our children in schools? Do we have to carefully plan the best way to secure the weapons and the TRAINED personnel in our schools. Yes and of course... but that is necessary and if we really value the lives of people; teachers, students, parents, first responders, it is a price we must pay. Just because you dont like guns and the fact that criminals exist who pay no attention to our laws will not stop them. We have to be responsible, smart and ready to oppose them philosophically, intellectually and YES physically. If one of those legs is missing the table topples. We put armed guards at our sporting events, at bars, on planes, around our politicians, our celebrities, outside our gold and silver stores... What is more valuable to us?
I respectfully disagree with Mr. Kelly; If you go back and look at the sequence of events at the Sandy Hook
massacre; it took 30 minuites for first responders to arrive at the school. If there was an armed guard on campus
he would have a radio on his person. Police would have been notified sooner, and the shooter would have to
deal with the guard. things would have been different. in the end the shooters plans would be interrupted.
It is a question of money, hire armed guards and dogs or rebuild Afghanistan. The war is here in America. I a the father of 7 and grandfather of 21. I WILL protect them in ANY WAY necessary to end the threat against them.
After 9/11, we had military personnel in the airport I worked in. The only problem was that they did not have any ammunition. Their M-16 presented a formidable appearance and gave some a sense of security. An officer in a school with an AR-15 would be a comforting sight to those in the school. We need to stop all the rhetoric about being afraid of guns and give those sworn to protect us the tools to combat any threat to those we love.
I am a 22 year military veteran and a retired police officer. Armed guards will work in schools and for added protection, give them a trained dog. People are more scared of a dog than a weapon. The assailant will concentrate on the dog and the guard may have the advantage. Ralph Moerschbacher, Captain, USAF Retired Vietnam Veteran
Hi Anderson,
I have the perfect solution. Having armed guards at every school is not sustainable, and all it does is increase the tax burden on civilians. I propose that a teacher at every school, perhaps more than one teacher at larger schools, get chosen to be armed teachers. They will have to take a firearms course before hand, and twice a year there after. This way it costs the tax payers nothing but the training fees twice a year and they don't have to pay for a full time cop per school! Makes perfect sense... and it is the most economical method to implement such security for our children.
My daughter is a teacher in a low income High risk school. In the last few months they have lost 12 teachers. This is burn out in these schools, Teachers are Overworked and underpaid and under appreciated.
My daughter works easy 9+ hrs a day at the school not counting what shes grading or preparing at home–which she doesn't get pd for! She is making less then 35k a yr for this lousy job. Now do you REALLY want to put guns in the hands of some of these Teachers??? I'm worried enough about her, I don't want to worry that some teacher is going to lose it, or a student gets a hold of a gun!!
Well Kelly how do you know it won't work? It sure can't hurt. If it presents a deterient it would be worth it. Most of these school shootings are always around a younger male, normally by himself. If that person knows there is an armed guard to face I put my money on him finding a "Softer" targer to whelm his anger at. Gun control won't resolve this anyway unless you are going to literally take away every pistol, shotgun, etc. from every citizen so that just the bad guys have them. Common sense should tell anyone this!!!
The armed guard will just be the first victim at the next school shooting!
Armed teachers, what type of weapon, ammo and magazine capacity will be allowed.
How will weapon be secured and who will be held liable if that weapon is used accidentally or in a school shooting?
You are right, and i very much agree. The only issue is this – "gun free zone" without a serious and visible police/security presence – be it a school, a campus or any other institution is a welcome sign for criminals to cause havoc, rampage and murder without any risk to themselves.
Disarming civilain population in a country full of well armed criminals and without extra police presence is an invitation for more bloodbaths and loss of life. And all the new regulations will only impact law abiding citizens – sadly in US the criminals will get the guns/magazines they need in the foreseeable future.
There will be no single dimensional solution to this. And coming up with an emotional one size fits all solution will cause only more issues later.. So i think Obama – and i am not a fan in general – is treating it correctly.
I don't think that tougher gun laws are going to help either. Criminals or mentally challenged people will not follow them. Period. What needs to be done, is stricter background checks, not when you buy a gun, because that just hinders all the collectors, but when you buy the ammo. The ammo is what is used to make the gun dangerous. The Health Care also needs to be overhauled to treat and care for the mentally disabled. Right now, there are not many facilities, that are around to care for them that is covered by insurance. 3 months of treatment for a year is just not enough...and the cost is too much, so they end up on the street...
I believe while many thing of their right to bear arms to feel safe, those who wish not to bear arms also have a right to feel safe. It will be step forward if in addition to this assault weapon band, mental check during purchases, we make it mandatory that all gun owner do a mental check every two year . mental illness is not static
I totally agree with you Jeff, There's a big difference between a musket ball , a wad of cloth and some gun powder rammed with a rod and then after you shoot it takes another minute to reload!! Our Forefathers had NO IDEA what today's gun situation would be like. Now We need strong gun registration and a complete mental check and every 2 years is not a bad idea!!
Having armed guards in our school, for a start will changes the quite and peaceful learning environment, secondly, how much protection can you get from a hand gun of guard against an assault high capacity riffle of a lunatic.
I dont know about you but im glad my kids school has a police presence.
How can one think a trained officer at a school would deteriate the study environment? If anything it would proably support a quiter school environement. Also the on-going issue of bullies, having that armed guard might just also help settle that situaion down that seems to be at upper levels these days. The liberals took away the paddle from our teacher, I personally think that is what we are reaping in today's environment.
What about those unstable people who do not want to buy an assault weapon, just borrow their mothers, fathers, uncles, friends, emplyoer or someone who they know who already owns an assault weapon?


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Friday Philosophy – Oracle Performance Silver Bullet August 5, 2011Posted by mwidlake in Architecture, Friday Philosophy, performance.
Tags: Architecture, hardware, Humour, performance
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For as long as I have been working with Oracle technology {which is now getting towards 2 decades and isn't that pause for thought} there has been a constant search for Performance Silver Bullets – some trick or change or special init.ora parameter {alter system set go_faster_flag='Y'} you can set to give you a guaranteed boost in performance. For all that time there has been only one.
There are a few performance Bronze Bullets…maybe Copper Bullets. The problem is, though, that the Oracle database is a complex piece of software and what is good for one situation is terrible for another. Often this is not even a case of "good 90% of the time, indifferent 9% of the time and tragic 1% of the time". Usually it is more like 50%:30%:20%.
I've just been unfair to Oracle software actually, a lot of the problem is not with the complexity of Oracle, it is with the complexity of what you are doing with Oracle. There are the two extremes of OnLine Transaction Processing (lots of short running, concurrent, simple transactions you want to run very quickly by many users) and Data Warehouse where you want to process a vast amount of data by only a small number of users. You may well want to set certain initialisation parameters to favour quick response time (OLTP) or fastest processing time to completion (DW). Favouring one usually means a negative impact on the other. Many systems have both requirements in one… In between that there are the dozens and dozens of special cases and extremes that I have seen and I am just one guy. People get their database applications to do some weird stuff.
Partitioning is a bronze bullet. For many systems, partitioning the biggest tables makes them easier to manage, allows some queries to run faster and aids parallel activity. But sometimes (more often than you might think) Partitioning can drop rather than increase query or DML performance. In earlier versions of Oracle setting optimizer_index_caching and optimizer_index_cost_adj was often beneficial and in Oracle 9/8/7 setting db_file_multiblock_read_count "higher" was good for DWs….Go back to Oracle 7 and doing stuff to increase the buffer cache hit ratio towards 98% was generally good {and I will not respond to any comments citing Connors magnificent "choose your BCHR and I'll achieve it" script}.
You know what? There was an old trick in Oracle 7 you could maybe still look at as a bronze bullet. Put your online redo logs and key index tablespaces on the fastest storage you have and split your indexes/tables/partitions across the faster/slower storage as is fit. Is all your storage the same speed? Go buy some SSD and now it isn't….
Then there are bronze bullets that you can use that very often improve performance but the impact can be catastrophic {Let's call them wooden bullets 🙂 }. Like running your database in noarchivelog mode. That can speed up a lot of things, but if you find yourself in the situation of needing to do a recovery and you last cold backup is not recent enough – catastrophe. A less serious but more common version of this is doing things nologging. "oh, we can just re-do that after a recovery". Have you done a test recovery that involved that "oh, we can just do it" step? And will you remember it when you have a real recovery situation and the pressure is on? Once you have one of these steps, you often end up with many of them. Will you remember them all?
How many of you have looked at ALTER SYSTEM SET COMMIT_WRITE='BATCH,NOWAIT'? It could speed up response times and general performance on your busy OLTP system. And go lose you data on crash recovery. Don't even think about using this one unless you have read up on the feature, tested it, tested it again and then sat and worried about could possibly go wrong for a good while.
That last point is maybe at the core of all these Performance Bronze Bullets. Each of these things may or may not work but you have to understand why and you have to understand what the payback is. What could now take longer or what functionality have I now lost? {hint, it is often recovery or scalability}.
So, what was that one Silver Bullet I tantalizingly left hanging out for all you people to wait for? You are not going to like this…
Look at what your application is doing and look at the very best that your hardware can do. Do you want 10,000 IOPS a second and your storage consists of less than 56 spindles? Forget it, your hardware cannot do it. No matter what you tune or tweak or fiddle with. The one and only Performance Silver Bullet is to look at your system and your hardware configuration and work out what is being asked and what can possibly be delivered. Now you can look at:
- What is being asked of it. Do you need to do all of that (and that might involve turning some functionality off, if it is a massive drain and does very little to support your business).
- Are you doing stuff that really is not needed, like management reports that no one has looked at in the last 12 months?
- Is your system doing a heck of a lot to achieve a remarkably small amount? Like several hundred buffer gets for a single indexed row? That could be a failure to do partition exclusion.
- Could you do something with physical data positioning to speed things up, like my current blogging obsession with IOTs?
- You can also look at what part of your hardware is slowing things down. Usually it is spindle count/RAID level, ie something dropping your IOPS. Ignore all sales blurb from vendors and do some real-world tests that match what you app is or wants to do.
It's hard work but it is possibly the only Silver Bullet out there. Time to roll up our sleeves and get cracking…
{Many Thanks to Kevin Closson for providing all the pictures – except the Silver Bullet, which he only went and identified in his comment!}


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Swedish Police Find Drugs On Justin Bieber Tour Bus
Lars Bystrom, spokesman for the Stockholm police, told The Associated Press a small amount of drugs and a stun gun were discovered during a search of the bus, which had been parked under the Globen concert venue in Stockholm, where Bieber was performing Wednesday.
Bystrom declined to identify the drug, saying that it was sent to a lab for analysis. He said no one was arrested since the bus was empty at the time of the search.
Swedish police decided to act after smelling marijuana coming from inside the bus while it was parked outside the hotel where Bieber was staying in the Swedish capital. The drug squad searched the bus during the concert, Bystrom said.
The incident is the latest in Bieber's tumultuous European tour, which has included a monkey detention, a Holocaust museum furor and a health scare.
In Britain, the 19-year-old singer struggled with his breathing and fainted backstage at a London show. He was taken to a hospital, only to be caught on camera clashing with paparazzi.
In Germany, the Canadian teenage idol had to leave his monkey in quarantine since he didn't have the necessary papers for the animal.
In the Netherlands, Bieber became the focus of intense criticism for writing an entry into a guestbook at the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam, saying he hoped the Jewish teenager, who died in a Nazi concentration camp, "would have been a Belieber" – or fan of his – if her fate had turned out differently.
The comment provoked a flood of comments on the museum's Facebook page, with many people criticizing the singer for gross insensitivity.
Anne Frank hid with her family in a small apartment above a warehouse during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Her family was caught and deported, and Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in 1945. She was 13 years old when she began keeping her diary in 1942. Like many teenage girls, she made a collage of the celebrities of her day – movie stars, dancers, and royalty – and kept it on her bedroom wall.
In Norway, where Bieber enjoys enormous popularity, education officials in a remote district rescheduled mid-term exams for high school students so that the singer's fans could attend the concert in the capital and not have to worry about missing the tests.
By Thursday afternoon, Bieber had left Sweden and was in Finland, where he is due to play in the capital Helsinki on Friday evening.


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"I'd like to tone up, lose some weight, get in shape, and get my beach body" are common goals personal trainers hear from clients, but what if a client said, "I'd like to grow some more brain cells"?
This may seem outlandish, but studies have demonstrated that vigorous exercise fuels neurogenesis — the creation of new brain cells — and slows neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Similar to how exercise grows muscle cells by creating new mitochondria (organelles that give fuel to most cellular activity) near the nucleus, exercise boosts brain cells.
While it's unlikely a client would actually say they wanted to grow new brain cells, the unrivaled, unmatched and fearless fitness professional on the edge of the latest research and contemporary thinking would know exactly how to respond.
An often-quoted study at the University of South Carolina is worth briefly noting. Two groups of mice were assigned to either run on a treadmill for an hour a day or lead more sedentary lifestyles without such exercise during a two-month period. What they found in the brains was very interesting: The group that exercised had significantly greater mitochondrial development in their brains than the sedentary mice did, demonstrating that exercise can induce mitochondrial biogenesis in more than muscle — at least in mice.
And a study at the National Cheng Jung University in Taiwan found that when mice were allowed to run freely compared to being forced to run harder than they might otherwise, the findings were again indicative of noteworthy brain changes. Those racing harder had molecular changes in more areas of the brain than those allowed to run at their own comfortable pace. The researchers concluded that different forms of exercise led to different neuroplasticity changes in mice.
The University of Illinois did a study on humans that demonstrated similar findings. They compared brisk walking with stretching on tests of cognition. Brisk walking, with its increase in blood flow, induced a greater molecular cascade and therefore improved test scores.
Other studies on humans have demonstrated that when aerobically trained subjects were compared with age-matched control groups of subjects who were either doing strength and flexibility exercise or were not engaged in exercise, the aerobically trained group demonstrate significantly advanced central cerebral metabolic activity and improvement on neuropsychological tests.
The 1972 foundational work of Goodwin, McClowskey and Matthews, referenced in the ACE Personal Trainer Manual, pages 452-453, describe some of the understanding of how sensory receptors and the central nervous system interact in humans. This work is important to recognizing how growth factors are carried from the body's periphery to the brain to initiate the brain's growth factor cascades that exercise induces.
And this helps forward-thinking, differentiated and unique fitness professionals be better able to discuss how new neurons and brain connections are, in fact, created through vigorous exercise.
It has been found that not only is exercise helpful in promoting the brain's growth, but in slowing neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) and reducing peripheral risk factors for cognitive decline as well. Remember the mice? Research data suggests that mitochondrial deficits play a role in the development of these diseases, so exercise is beneficial to overall neurological health.
Over and over again, the research, particularly when focused on the hippocampus area of the brain, demonstrates that exercise reduces diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease that can combine to cause brain impairment and forms of neurodegeneration.
Aerobic exercise, in particular, assists in the regulation of growth factors and the reduction of peripheral and central risk factors furthering successful brain functioning, improving learning and memory, delaying age-related cognitive decline, playing a role in regulating mood disorders, and helping ensure overall wellbeing.
So much for just toning up, losing a few pounds and getting six pack — grow new brain cells as well! It doesn't take a brain surgeon to discover exercise benefits more than just muscles — it takes a leading edge, crisp thinking, and distinguished fitness professional.


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After leading the way in remotely-operated warfare—killing terror suspects and insurgent leaders with drones—the White House is now trying to push for international guidelines on drone use. In an interview with Reuters, former White House National Security Council spokesperson Tommy Veitor said that the Obama administration wants to set the legal standards for drone use as Chinese and Russian drone programs begin to reach the capabilities of systems like those of the Predator and Reaper in the US.
"People say, 'What's going to happen when the Chinese and the Russians get this technology?'" Veitor told Reuters. "The president is well aware of those concerns and wants to set the standard for the international community on these tools."
Some of this decision may be driven by legal considerations at home. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that the Central Intelligence Agency could no longer simply refuse to confirm or deny that it kept records of drone strikes. The CIA is now required by law to "explain what records it is withholding, and on what grounds it is withholding them," as American Civil Liberties Union Legal Director Jameel Jaffer said in a written statement on the decision. And there has been increasing pressure from Congress for the White House to be more accountable for drone operations. This includes the recent filibuster of new CIA director John Brennan's nomination by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, brought on by concerns over the potential use of drones to kill terror suspects within US borders.
Caitlin Hayden, who replaced Veitor as spokesperson for the National Security Council, also spoke with Reuters. "We are constantly working to refine, clarify, and strengthen the process for considering terrorist targets for lethal action," she said. "We are establishing standards other nations may follow."


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Burning, Itching Blisters: 5 Things to Know About Shingles
You probably don't remember having chickenpox as a child or getting a chickenpox vaccine. You probably haven't given the illness a passing thought in decades. But you might want to think about it now. While chickenpox is usually an illness reserved for children, it can come roaring back in adulthood as shingles.
If you have had chickenpox, you are at risk of shingles, and you won't soon forget the severe pain it can cause. There is no telling if and when shingles will strike, but luckily there are vaccines available to help prevent it. Here are a few things you should know about shingles.
What Is Shingles?
Shingles is an illness that is related to chickenpox and caused by the same virus: the varicella-zoster virus. Before the chickenpox vaccine was developed, most children got chickenpox at some point. After you contract chickenpox, the virus remains in your body. Later in life, the virus can become active again and cause shingles.
Most children today receive a chickenpox vaccine. Like the natural virus that causes chickenpox, the vaccine virus can also become active later in life and cause shingles. However, people who had a chickenpox vaccine have a lower risk of getting shingles than people who had chickenpox.
What Are the Symptoms?
The first sign of shingles is usually pain, which can be severe. After a few days, a person with shingles may develop a rash and fluid-filled blisters. Shingles can also cause burning, numbness, itching, and sensitivity to touch. It usually affects only one area of the body at a time, often appearing as a stripe of blisters on one side of the torso. People with shingles are contagious to those who have not had chickenpox or the chickenpox vaccine, but they are only contagious while they have open sores. If somebody catches the virus from a person with shingles, they will develop chickenpox, not shingles.
Who Is at Risk?
If you have had chickenpox, you can get shingles at some point during your lifetime. Almost one in three Americans will get shingles at least once, and the risk increases with age. Older adults and people with a weakened immune system have a higher likelihood of being hospitalized with complications. The most common complication of shingles is severe pain after the shingles rash has healed, and the risk for this complication also increases with age.
How Is It Treated?
There are some medications available that can improve some of the shingles symptoms. These antiviral medicines do not cure shingles, but they can shorten the duration and lessen the severity of the illness. Contact your doctor when shingles symptoms appear and start treatment as soon as possible. Other treatments for shingles include pain management options like numbing cream and pain relievers.
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A shingles vaccine can lower the risk of getting the illness. A new vaccine, Shingrix, was approved in late 2017 and is much more effective than previous vaccines. Shingrix is 97 percent effective for people ages 50–69 and 91 percent effective for people over age 70. It is recommended for everyone over age 50, even if they have been vaccinated in the past or if they have had shingles.
"Although most people who get shingles only get it once, it is possible to get it multiple times," says Skyler Peterson, executive director at Carrollton Health and Rehabilitation Center. "The risk of getting more than one bout of shingles is higher for elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. It is important to get the shingles vaccine, whether or not you have had the illness, to help prevent recurrences."
If you think you may have shingles, visit your doctor as soon as possible to get treatment. If you haven't had shingles, or even if you have, get a vaccine to give yourself the best protection from the illness.


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Brother charged with attempted murder
Anderson County Sheriff's Department investigators arrested the younger brother of a shooting victim, charging him with attempted second-degree murder and aggravated assault.
Deputies served an arrest warrant on 30-year-old Jamie Lynn Lowe, of Powell, at the Anderson County jail on Wednesday, a Sheriff's Department news release said.
He's charged in connection with the shooting of his brother Jeffery Allen Lowe, 28, shot Feb. 1 at their mother's home on Johnson Gap Road near Clinton.
Jamie Lynn Lowe has been in jail since Tuesday, when he was located at a residence on Mehaffey Road in Claxton on a fugitive from justice warrant for a parole violation in Michigan. He is being held without bond on the Michigan warrant and on a $150,000 bond on the new charges.
Jamie Lowe was on parole for a Michigan methamphetamine conviction in 2008, the release said.
Investigators are not releasing the motive in this case as the investigation is ongoing, the release said.
Jeffrey Lowe was flown by LifeStar air ambulance to the University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville with life-threatening wounds after the shooting, but UT hospital officials said the hospital had no information when contacted about his condition.
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Supermodel Marisa Miller isn't be shy about her pregnant bod.
In a photo shoot for Allure, the 33-year-old stripped down to her skivvies, showing off her belly nine months into pregnancy.
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Publish Or Perish. Ever heard that phrase before? It echos through the halls of the university and hearts of grad students around the world, prompting many-a-late night in the library and archives (which is a good thing!) researching, writing, writing, writing. And to what end? Potential recognition for publishing in a journal, a new line on your resume, or respect as a "leader" in the field? How and where does this sort of academic rigor fit into the common experience of the library, museum or archives student? Does it?
It would seem that for a majority, writing and publishing a journal or book might not matter at all. In fact, this could be one area that challenges the idea of "Big Tent Librarianship" that our own Britt Foster wrote about weeks ago, since it is most often the academic librarians that are expected and required to "publish or perish." Well, in the spirit of all things hackery, I'd like to propose that that is hogwash, and that as students in this field it is our responsibility to foster a culture of writing and sharing for the purpose of opening discussions across the field, regardless of institutional affiliation or professional track.
Ok. Great. Really inspiring little paragraph there. Here comes the honesty – the work of writing and publishing is not easy. And I really dislike the whole structure of it. In fact, the reason I took up blogging here and on my own blog was to avoid the whole publishing thing entirely. Peer review really rustles my feathers, and the potential for rejection is nothing short of the worst. My personal thoughts on journals are that they are an old, outdated, closed model for keeping information and data in the hands of the field "leaders." (That doesn't sound anti-authoritarian at all, right?) 😉
HOWEVER – I recognize that sometimes utilizing a model that might need a facelift can become the change that it needs. The good news is that others are having similar recognitions, and doing something about it. For example, my fellow HLS editor Julia is also an editor for B-Sides, an open access peer reviewed journal that showcases student and alumni work at UIowa. The open access journal, and the idea of open data (a growing concept in Scholarly Communications) generally, could become a real watershed moment in the old publish or perish conversation.
Finally, I have a recommendation. The Library Student Journal is where we should all begin. Not only are they focused on publishing works by students specifically, but they also are evolving the model by supporting open access to the articles and by publishing continually instead of bi-montly or quarterly as many other journals do. Or, publish your research papers and projects on your own site/blog. The point is that as students, we are in the position that we can try new things, share our research in new ways, and ultimately have an integral part in developing the corpus that will inform future students and the profession. And listen, your Information Organization final paper might not be amazing, but you might have one great insight that could affect a peer or colleague to something even greater.
Lets make a deal – I'll overcome my disdain for the journal/publishing process and submit something if you will. Any takers?
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger continues to gush over his surgically repaired right knee.
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"It feels great, it feels better than ever, like it's a brand new knee, and I feel younger than ever, I feel good," Big Ben said this week from London, per 7M Sports.
Roethlisberger underwent an arthroscopic procedure to clean up meniscus damage on June 5, maintaining all along that he'll be ready for the start of Steelers training camp later this month.
Roethlisberger is one of the game's toughest signal-callers, but he acknowledged that "wear and tear" took its toll on the knee after 13 starts in 2012.
Big Ben had his other knee operated on during the 2005 season and has played a full 16-game schedule only once in 10 years. A "brand new" knee could go a long way to producing his second wire-to-wire campaign.